MONTHLY LUNCHEONS & OTHER CHAMBER HAPPENINGS

The Carlton Area Chamber of Commerce meets month by month. The meeting venues are decided upon each month, depending on availability and topics, and information is sent to all members on a monthly basis.

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Help Carlton have an awesome All Night Grad Party for its Class of 2019. It's Bulldog Night at Cloquet DQ Grill & Chill on Monday, March 18th.Please support the Class of 2019 All-Night Grad Party! #classof2019 #93bulldogs Thank you Dairy Queen for your support ...

Did you know?The city of Carlton began as a railroad junction called Northern Pacific Junction or N.P. Junction in 1870. Before then, there were two settlements, one called Komoko near present day Komoko Road and the site of the junction point between the transcontinental line and a the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad. There was a general store and a few other buildings at the Komoko site. Another settlement was a few shacks on the rocks north of the Carlton Feed Mill.

The Komoko site's terrain proved to be unsuitable, and the main site was moved to the present day Carlton. In 1881, Northern Pacific was incorporated as a village. The county seat was moved there in 1889, to the chagrin of Thomson, the previous county seat, and Cloquet, who also wanted to be the county seat. In 1891, the village was officially renamed Carlton after Reuben Carlton of whom the county was also named after.

Reuben Carlton was born in New York State in 1812. 35 years later, he and his wife Susan came to Fond du Lac on the St. Louis River and just outside the borders of Carlton County. He was appointed to be a farmer and blacksmith for the Chippewa and became a trustee when Fond du Lac was incorporated as a townsite in 1857, the same year Carlton became a county in the territory of Minnesota. He was also a witness to a treaty with the Chippewa in 1857 and helped to organize a mining company to explore mineral rights around the North Shore that same year.

A year later, Minnesota became as state and Reuben Carlton was elected as the first state senator for the 26th district, which included Carlton, St. Louis, Lake, Itasca, and Buchanan counties (Buchanen County was once a part of northern Pine County and was dissolved in 1861). Reuben died in 1863 and was buried at the Nemadji cemetery in Superior.

Have you always wanted to be better at budgeting your money and wiser with your finances? If so - here a class that will help you with just that!Note: change to Mondays! Planning for the future is hard when you’re still paying for the past! Listen—there’s a better way! Join our Financial Peace University group, and we’ll learn how to beat debt and make a plan for the future . . . together! Interested? Join us at Carlton Wellness Center starting March 25. Feel free to message us your questions or sign up at www.fpu.com/1085920! Mondays at 6:00 p.m. ...